TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Using Participant Event Monitoring in a Cohort Study of Unintentional Injuries Among Children and Adolescents
JO  - American journal of public health
A1  - Wilkins, J. R.
A1  - Crawford, J. Mac
A1  - Stallones, Lorann
A1  - Koechlin, Kathleen M.
A1  - Shen, Lei
A1  - Hayes, Joseph
A1  - Bean, Thomas L.
SP  - 283
EP  - 290
VL  - 97
IS  - 2
N2  - Objectives. We conducted a 3-year cohort study of 407 youths aged 9 to 18 years to develop multivariable risk prediction models of agriculture-related injuries. Methods. Data were obtained via participant event monitoring, with youths self-reporting injuries and exposures in daily diaries over a 13-week period. We evaluated data quality by comparing injury self-reports with other injury data. Results. Semilogarithmic plots of rates of all unintentional injuries combined (US data from 2000) as well as of agriculture-related injuries (US and Canadian data from 19 previous studies) graphed as a function of injury severity exhibited linearity, as did plots based on the present results. Severity-specific unintentional injury rates were 1.4- to 4.3-times higher than national rates, suggesting that our methodology can significantly reduce injury underreporting. In addition, at each severity level, estimated agriculture-related injury rates were 5.8- to 9.3-times higher than rates from previous national, regional, and state-based studies. Conclusions. Our approach to participant event monitoring can be implemented with aged 9 to 18 years and will yield reliable daily data on unintentional injuries.    <p></p>    <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0090-0036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2005.077172
ID  - ref1
ER  -